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0 pointscrpatino10y ago0 comments

There has always been deviants, and there have always been two kind of deviants: the ones that figure out how to blend with the masses while retaining their identity, and the ones that meet sad ends at the wrong side of a pitchfork.

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xixi7710y ago· 1 in thread

There's always been the third kind, those that would take action to change their surroundings -- either directly, or by surrounding themselves with like-minded people. At least the second method seems to have become much easier with the advent of the internet (first probably too, but that's a whole other subject).

crpatinoOP10y ago

Right, I'd considered those to be part of the first group, but the differences are too obvious to not grant a cathegory of their own.

At the end of day, though, it all boils down to claiming a niche in society. If you fill a niche, your excentricities will be tolerated, otherwise you will be labeled as "other" and ostracized.

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